Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Green Shirts on Thursday win by 7 wickets as West Indies set 208 runs target for Pakistan in third T20 International match at National Cricket Stadium in Karachi on Thursday.
Muhammad Rizwan (87) and Babar Azam’s (79) outstanding opening partnership of 158 runs drove Pakistan to victory. Asif Ali also contributed 21 runs on 7 balls.
Earlier, West Indies skipper Nicholas Pooran hit a career-best 37-ball 64 with six sixes and two boundaries and ended up as the top scorer for the side. Pooran added 93 for the third wicket with Darren Bravo, who scored an unbeaten 27-ball 34. Shamarh Brooks (49) and Brandon King (43) also played brisk knocks.
Pakistan made clean sweep while the West Indies was having a clear aim to avoid the whitewash.
Earlier in the day, five more members of the West Indies cricket squad — including three players — tested positive for Covid, officials said.
Four members of the touring party tested positive on Saturday, bringing the total to nine since they arrived last week for a Twenty20 and limited-over series.
Cricket West Indies officials said they would meet with their Pakistan counterparts later Thursday “once all members of the touring party have been tested again” to determine whether they can continue.
Any cancellation would be a huge blow to Pakistan, which has seen tours by New Zealand and England called off in recent months on security grounds.
Pakistan won the first two Twenty20 matches against West Indies with dead rubber to be due to played later today in Karachi.
West Indies officials said the latest positive test results in the squad came from wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope, left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein, all-rounder Justin Greaves, assistant coach Roddy Estwick, and physician Akshai Mansingh.